Stun Gun Found on Jet Blue Flight to Newark, NJ

Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:14am by Jonathon M. Seidl
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine how a stun gun got aboard a JetBlue plane that landed at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport.

The crew was cleaning up after the 10:20 p.m. flight arrived from Boston on Friday and found the stun gun tucked into the back of a seat.

Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman tells The Star-Ledger of Newark it’s not clear who the weapon belonged to or how it got on the plane. Coleman says there’s no indication the weapon had been fired.

Port Authority police turned the stun gun over to the Transportation Security Administration. The agency is responsible for screening those who boarded the flight.

Flights used in the Sept. 11 attacks originated from Boston and Newark.

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Bonnieblue2A
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:47pm
It was a stun gun found so why does the Blaze put up a photo of a Taser? Come on editors, get it right without the sensationalism. The TSA is here to intimidate us and children, old women, WWII veterans, and former beauty queens fly safer when the TSA is not there to physically violate and abuse them.
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- rose-ellen
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 3:35pm
  The price to pay for being the worlds dictators.it’s not so easy to take over the world america-now you’re divided among yourselves as you get tyranized by your own and the slighest thing gets you all defensive.like a crumbling empire. .
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- Secret Squirrel
  Posted on July 12, 2011 at 9:11am
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  Hmmmm, who lives in Newark?
  
  A lot of people of the religion of death.
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abbygirl1994
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:43pm
Wow they missed a pat down or a xray on whoever brought it aboard.. or did they let it happen on purpose. To make the American people mo afraid, so they can say, :see it is so important that we pat you down or is that feel you up?? Sorry I am confused! God forgive TSA!
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Fat Pappy
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:50am
Probably a Sky Marshal’s and he forgot to put it back under his coat before he left the plane.
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- ZZero
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:14pm
  Yes sir. I believe that’s what it will turn out to be.
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Pattio
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:43am
Well, we know who DIDN’T take it on board, namely no 6 year-old children nor 95 year-old wheelchair bound grandmothers!
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CaveatEmpty
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:36am
“.. it’s not clear who the weapon belonged to ..”

ORLY? the farkin‘ SERIAL NUMBER was filed off or somethin’ ?? The internal memory got erased ??
+1!! Kinda liking that “Stun & Run” scenario
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pork eating crusader
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:22am
picture is of a taser, and its not a weapon, it’s a less than lethal device.
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- Fat Pappy
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:55am
  UH it may not be lethal, it most certainly a weapon, the “weapon” of choice of a US Marshal to subdue a combative idiot at 30,000 feet instead of shooting a hole in the side of the plane.
- HisNameWasRobertPaulson
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:58pm
  The bullets used by the sky marshalls will not penetrate the plane. They will penetrate only skin. They shatter upon contact with anything of substance that will not relent, but still pack a wallop. Still though, even if you shot a hole in the plane, its not like it will decompress in three seconds. All the pilot has to do is increase the pressure system to compensate for the small bullet hole in the hull, and then safely land the plane. Nothing to it.
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Dismayed Veteran
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 9:58am
I wonder what the Tazer felt like during the pat down. Just another example of faulty security procedures.
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- TomFerrari
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 10:11am
  Wonder what body cavity THAT was hidden in?
  
  Poofy hair?
  
  Maybe we should just institute complete body cavity searches and strip searches and get it over with.
  
  Maybe that would make the socialist democrats and progressive BIG GOVERNMENT pols happy?
  
  could even be a false flag?
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Perspective
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 9:33am
They suspect it was smuggled on by the 6 yr old boy that got the double pat down. TSA=MORONS
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twoifbysea
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 9:05am
Thanks goodness they found and gave me the stink eye for having chapstick in my pocket.
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Justus39
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:56am
Since Obama wants the TSA unionized they have become very dependable at keeping Grandmothers off of airplanes but yet people without boarding passes and people with stun guns onto airplanes. Unions are great for terrorist!
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itsmyfirstday
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:56am
I bet they checked every elderly American and let the Islam young men pass unchecked…
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affinnity
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:55am
The good news is that thanks to TSA we know it wasn’t American born babies, children up to 12, teens, adults, senior citizens or any physically handicapped person such as a quadraplegic. Hmm I guess that leaves some pesky foreign criminal or terrorist. Who would have ever thought of that?
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Darla_K
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:54am
I am glad I don’t have to fly. :)
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Mrtoohappy
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:43am
I bet some 2 year old kid had it, better check all of them. To give it to the TSA they won’t have a clue what to do with it, no wait they will use it on the 2 year old kids
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Dorkville
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:40am
TOWER7FEMACAMP – you’re an idiot.
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- tower7femacamp
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:48am
  thanks DORKVILLE, that means I am being effective.
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mac410
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:24am
Likely a careless air marshal. He’ll loose his job with this one.
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- TelepromoterNChief
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:45am
  Doubtful.
  
  TSA will just have to double their efforts this week with their little boy searches.
  
  Perverts.
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LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:09am
The TSA has proven itself to be just as pathetic at their job as obama
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jim
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:00am
They missed the stun gun because they didn‘t search that little old lady’s diaper all the way… I‘m sure they’ll “crack” down next time.
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NOBALONEY
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:54am
How did that get there? It Depends! It could have been part of ATF’s new revised fast and furious, called stun and run. Maybe TSA will revise their pat downs to include deep cavity searches? Looney tunes.
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TelepromoterNChief
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:47am
Too many kids to fondle TSA?

You perverts look all the more fool now.

Love those polyblend uniforms on your half-assed wannabe rent-a-cops who could NEVER pass a REAL law endforcement exam.
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- Bill
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 1:39pm
  Who said it came in by a passenger? Cleaning crew, maintenance crew ect?
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dupaws
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:33am
One of two things either a air marshel forgot the gun, Oop’s that not good. Or, a TSA agent did not want to be Politicaly incorrect, so they did not pat down one mussi . Ejther way it was one big screw up
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- MidWestMom
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 9:43am
  How about put there on purpose? By the government. Roll all these “isolated” instances of so-called security lapses (stun gun, box cutter, pocket knives etc etc etc) and the government can “justify” more & more control. All nicely hidden under the “its for your own safety” agenda.
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rickroland
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:33am
This sounds like a dry run to me, which then became an epic fail by TSA AGAIN!
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- CatB
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 1:27pm
  Well I don’t think it was carried on by Granny or a Child or Baby .. perhaps they are “profiling” the wrong people … because they certainly are doing a HECK OF A JOB… FIRE THEM ALL NOW!
  
  TEA!
  
  Why does ANYONE Fly?
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citygirl56
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:22am
Somehow TSA missed feeling up a child or a disabled older person. They need to do a better job.
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- tower7femacamp
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:28am
  They need to do a better job. NO THEY NEED ABOLISHED !!!!
  Wake up slave
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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:22am
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A Stun GUN! REALLY!!! I don’t think the TSA could find a Terrorist if was stuck up their collective Ass, with both hands and a flash light……………
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- tower7femacamp
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:27am
  If a terrorist works for the airline or a food vender inside the secure area
  they bypass the scanners,
  so how hard would it be to get a bartender or waitress job
  at the airport, then smuggle stuff in for other terrorist to
  carry on the plane.
  
  this whole 911 thing is a total hoax inside job
  to take control of the American people like in Soviet Union
  or Nazi Germany. or Red China
  
  http://www.infowars.com/atf’s-fast-and-furious-seems-colored-with-shades-of-irancontra-scandal/
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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:45am
  TSA, EPA, IRS, HLS, DOE,ATF, Obama and his commie crew all need to go
  Jerks one and all…………the only government program I out lived so far (the space shuttle) and that should have been gone 20yrs ago
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:37am
  @Republicorp
  NASA is the only government run program we have benefitted from, technologically. No other program has provided us with inventions and other job-creating industires like NASA. It may be a government program, but NASA has created spin-off jobs and products like no other.
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- knockered
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:16pm
  Funny you should mention NASA. Isn’t funny that obummer has put an end to that program. hmmmm..
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benrush
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:15am
Don’t Panic.
The TSA is on it.
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- tower7femacamp
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:20am
  The imminent energy crisis was going to be both apocalyptic and unavoidable, and it was going to arrive sooner than expected. Like any “well-planned” government operation, the planning and initial preparations for what became 9/11 had begun in the Clinton administration as a contingency plan. That’s when the 19 so-called hijackers (and/or their handlers) began establishing their legends. But the Caspian news would account for the absolutely unfathomable number of mistakes that were made in both the plan’s execution and the subsequent cover-up. It was a rush job. Quickly, any number of classified or once-classified contingency plans for a staged attack on the US — like Operation Northwoods — came down off the shelf. As Brzezinski’s Grand Chessboard shows, the need for such an event had already been acknowledged in 1997 — conveniently, just as al Qaeda and the Taliban were emerging as world and regional players. Operation Northwoods, declassified in the late 1990s, had been planned in 1962.
  
  911 was an inside job
  and so the TSA was created to become the next Nazi
  FEMACAMP Guard system
  
  If you really believe the official 911 story
  then all we needed to do was to add an extra door to isolate the
  pilots cabin from the passengers, but NO we have never to this day addressed that
  just Naked Body scanners and Pat downs for the Slaves and the death of our
  constitution.
  
  Just think the next attack will be at Costco
  then Naked scans to buy food.
  Do you feel
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- tower7femacamp
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:22am
  I am glad they didn’t find a tube of toothpaste or a bottle of shampoo
  then the whole plan would be in danger.
  
  All that was ever needed after the 911 inside job was to secure the pilots
  cabin from the passengers.
  We had plans blown up and hyjacked in the past without the need for the TSA
  remember DB Cooper ?
  WTC7 was a Demo job
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- Ironmaan
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:31am
  Instead of looking for every tube of toothpaste and shampoo, it should be recomended that everyone CARRY a weapon, that way it would be kind of difficult to subdue the passengers and take over a plane.
  http://guerillatics.com
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:36am
  Was it in a senior citizen’s diaper?
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- benrush
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 7:37am
  Don‘t think it can’t happen in America. Yuri Besmenov was right.
  
  And a demoralized people are the more easily hypnotized by propaganda
  An uneducated people fails to learn from history.
  Enemies are made to appear as friends.
  Bad is made to appear good.
  Remember what the Bible says about perilous times.
  We are at that point folks.
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:38am
  Did anyone ask the Air Marshalls? (Not that they would admit to it.)
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- Sound The Trumpet In Zion
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:42am
  The TSA doesn’t let things like this make it on board. There could only be to possibilities for it being aboard, one of those terrorists that the TSA won’t profile against nor will they frisk them, or the TSA themselves put it on board. Or maybe that woman with the poofy hair had it hidden in her poofy hair and the TSA just missed seeing it?
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- fastfacts
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:59am
  DID YOU SEE RON PAUL TALK ABOUT PRIVATIZING THE TSA: http://tiny.cc/8g27b
  
  Though I don’t like him that much, he does have some good ideas, but instead of privatizing, lets allow intellectual profiling. That way you won’t have 6-year olds targetted twice: http://tiny.cc/vnjxe
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- KickinBack
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:53am
  THANK YOU TSA!!!
  
  And how much are we paying you???
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- knockered
  Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:11pm
  I‘ll bet it wasn’t anybody under 10 or above 70 in age. Good job protecting the public you bunch of a holes…just saying
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